Jobs

• Project Coordinator II - Pathways to Third Grade Success
  Full-time
  Listed 4/18/08
• Associate Director for Early Childhood Health
  Full-time
  Listed 4/3/08
• Project Coordinator II
  Full-time
  Listed 2/20/08

Project Coordinator II - Pathways to Third Grade Success

Full-time

Description

GRANT-FUNDED: Individual will play a key role in coordinating the work of a new project from the Kellogg Foundation called Pathways to Third Grade Success at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health. The project is designed to promote strategic cross-system community level action to improve outcomes for young children from birth to eight years old, to promote early school success, and to build a learning collaborative with six to eight communities. Incumbent will coordinate and manage the tool development and site selection process; work directly with community sites; network with other community and state partners; participate in conceptualizing and sequencing the work; coordinate the learning collaborative; provide technical assistance to sites; make site visits; coordinate networking meetings; organize national stakeholder forums; work with evaluators to assist in developing case studies; identify emerging issues and opportunities across sites; problem-solve to help implement Pathways project; organize webinars and related conferences/conference calls; carryout web, literature and field-based research; write syntheses and drafts of project briefs, facts sheets, other materials; develop first draft analyses; coordinate and develop production of Pathways NCCP web content; represent the project externally; additional related duties.

Qualifications

Required: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus four years of related experience; excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills; knowledge of early childhood services and policies, and/or an understanding of early childhood development; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; ability to travel.

Preferred: Master's degree in social work (community organizing), public policy, or early childhood education; analytical ability with capacity to network and take initiative; familiarity with cultural competence issues; interest in translating research to practice; experience in working in low-income communities; bilingual English/Spanish.

To Apply

All applicants must apply through the Columbia University Jobs site. Please visit the site and search open positions for requisition number 052773. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.

Excellent benefits. Salary commensurate with experience. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Columbia University takes affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity.

Associate Director for Early Childhood Health

Full-time

Description

GRANT-FUNDED: Individual will provide leadership to the comprehensive early childhood agenda at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health. The position will have a particular focus on helping states and communities implement effective policies and evidence-based practices to promote healthy development for children birth to eight years old. Individual will have responsibility for overseeing and growing NCCP's comprehensive early childhood health agenda (including physical, mental, oral, and environmental health) as well as Project Thrive. Project THRIVE is an early childhood policy support center serving 50 state early childhood comprehensive system grantees funded through a cooperative agreement with the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Individual will provide leadership to Project THRIVE; work directly with the state early childhood policy makers; develop policy analyses; offer policy consultation to the states to promote evidence-based policies and practices that promote healthy early childhood development including medical homes, early childhood mental health issues, Part C Early Intervention, and related topics; monitor emerging health-related issues and research related to young children and families; identify opportunities for NCCP to provide leadership to the field; work collaboratively with external organizations as well as the Mailman School of Public Health; represent NCCP and THRIVE at national forums and other external meetings; generate ideas for grant proposals; work with the director to seek funding; additional related duties.

Qualifications

Required: Bachelor's Degree, plus five years of related experience. Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated knowledge of early childhood systems with a particular expertise in a broad range of childhood health issues, and evidence of analytic skills and capacity to integrate research lessons into policy and practice recommendations. Management experience based in child health programs and policy, and success in fundraising and proposal development.

Preferred: Master's degree and ten years of experience or Ph.D. in public policy, public health, mental health or related field. Specific experience with early childhood mental health and early intervention; demonstrated capacity as an innovative responsive manager; strong leadership abilities with peers as well as recognition of leadership from relevant key stakeholders across the field, and experience working in low income communities with diverse populations. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.

To Apply

All applicants must apply through the Columbia University Jobs site. Please visit the site and search open positions for requisition number 052774. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.

Excellent benefits. Salary commensurate with experience. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Columbia University takes affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity.

Project Coordinator II

Full-time

Description

GRANT-FUNDED: Individual will work under the direction of the Director of Child Health and Mental Health to coordinate tasks related to a national initiative entitled, "Improving the State Policy Context for Comprehensive Preventive Health Care for Disadvantaged Youth." Incumbent will coordinate day-to-day tasks; develop initial drafts of research syntheses, briefs, fact sheets, data analyses, and other related materials; coordinate the Virtual Policy-Sharing Network, outreach efforts, and emerging issues roundtables; coordinate logistics for the learning collaboratives; provide policy support for a 50-state database; coordinate the production and flow of website content; monitor state and national policy developments related to the priority areas of the project; report findings to the health and mental health team; additional related duties.

Qualifications

Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus three years of related experience. Excellent oral/written communications, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Word, Excel, and Access.

Preferred: Master's degree in public health, education, school health, adolescent health and development, or public policy. Familiarity with SAS, SPSS or STATA. Knowledge of child and adolescent health, youth development, policies affecting vulnerable children and youth, or low-income children and families. Ability to understand and synthesize research. Ability to work independently, as part of a team, and juggle multiple tasks.

To Apply

All applicants must apply through the Columbia University Jobs site. Please visit the site and search open positions for requisition number 052596. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.

Excellent benefits. Salary commensurate with experience. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Columbia University takes affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity.